Reading, United Kingdom Travel Blogs

Dum Dum Da Dum
Jul 28, 2006 (23 photos)

... in London. I trained it down to London, and Kate and me got a lift with Luke the night before the wedding to somewhere near Reading. We spent two nights there, and although it was very expensive, we had a wonderful time. Colin and Emsey two of our best ...

You know you are back in England when...
Jun 25, 2006

... you are back in Madrid because the sun hits you right in the face. ...you return home to Madrid with no photos (well to be fair, I spent most of my time in Reading where I have lived for close to five years). ...you still have a jolly good time.

Reading - Departure Day
Aug 16, 2003

Well, we are just about ready to leave, although our rucksacks aren't totally packed yet and we are still doing some last minute washing! We've begun bickering already as we can't agree on what to write here (bodes well, eh?). We are much more excited ...

Thames Walk, Day 7
Aug 1, 2009 (96 photos)

... always do have one more, and it's that one more that kills you when you wake up in the morning !!! Day 7 Start - Finish Cholsey - Reading Distance - 26.1 Kilometres To be honest with you all, I was feeling like shit and we had 26 K's to walk. Trust me, ...

Reading, then Wedding
Dec 23, 2003 (5 photos)

... a full night of sleep, with Andrea waking up at 3.30 am (feeling hungry!). We got up fairly early and drove over to Reading for some final attempts at Christmas shopping and to spend the evening with my ex-house-mate and good mate, Grant (a.k.a Fatman). ...

Wrongful imprisonment... At Reading station
Feb 4, 2009

... and said I have no cash so they'll post me the bill, that way I can challenge it by proving I have a railcard. Then at Reading station where I was to catch my connecting coach, the doors wouldn't open and by the time I ran to the other carriage the train ...

Raring to go again....
Jan 17, 2008

Good evening friends & family :-) Well here we are on the brink of the Murgsontour return to Oz!! The bags are packed, the flight is confirmed, even though some BA pilot was chancing his luck today...LOL & all we have to do now is get up on ...

A trip down memory lane...
Jun 21, 2008

... Reading when he was 7 yrs. old. Finally we found our hotel after tea. We spent the next day touring about Caversham (in Reading) and seeing the house Chris lived in as well as the parks he played in, the school he attended and the corner store were ...

Event 28. Thames Path Ultra 50 mile.
Jan 18, 2009 (17 photos)

Saturday 17th of January 2009 Started at 08:10. Was due to start at 08:00 but the heavy rain delayed the briefing, not that I could hear what they were saying anyway.

England
Jul 21, 2008 (13 photos)

... scones and crumpets after the light and fluffy French pastries we had for so long. Today we are stopped just for a minute in a library in Reading, then we'll head on toward London.  We'll be staying in london for a week or so, probably just do the ...

One last day of drinkable tap water
Apr 12, 2009

... nbsp; Not in the overnight sense, anyway.  Lissy picked me up this morning (or, at this point, yesterday morning) at Reading station for a brief and lovely day of shopping, National Trust home visiting, eating and, of course, more eating.  Late ...

Hi!
Jan 31, 2008

This is my 1st entry. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING! Any way i hope u enjoy!

Less talk more action..... departure imminent....
Aug 25, 2005 (2 photos)

... taken at Reading leaving meal, I'll miss you guys and thanks for all the excellent and practical presents! Hope you enjoy reading about my jaunts! Karen. Chances are if you receive this e-mail you've been imported to my subscription list and you' ...

Home is where the heart is...
Sep 17, 2008

Slight change of plan...I flew back to the UK on my birthday to surprise my family at the birthday meal being held in my honour. After all, what's a birthday party without the birthday boy? Delayed in Auckland for 12 hours so I missed all my ...

Foiled Again!
Aug 17, 2005

... find somewhere to roller skate before the day is done, but until then I am writing to you from an Internet cafe in Reading, which is the next large town down from Twyford. I am rather frustrated because my Internet connection at home went out last night ...

African Itinerary
Aug 17, 2005 (1 photos)

... blog of Africa! I'm a kiwi girl taking a year (or so) career break to explore the world. I started out in Reading (pronounced 'Red-ing') UK in August 2005, travelled down to Spain, across the Morocco, flew to Ethiopia, then travelled down through ...

Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane...
Jan 22, 2006

So the day has almost arrived. You poor souls who had to hear me dream about this moment for so many years will now have to put up with me telling you about it instead of just wishing it was happening! Still, you all knew I would find a way to do this ...

Reading
Feb 11, 2005

... lunch courtesy of Mr Dick Sore - much obliged Rich. We got to the train station and headed for our next port of call - Reading. We arrived and started making our way to the pub to meet Lanky, after a couple of wrong turns I finally found my bearings ...

Reading Festival!!!
Aug 28, 2004 (5 photos)

... long weekend (think Big Day Out - with more mud). What a great day! I spent 1 1/2 hours on the train from London to Reading and then about another 1 1/2 outside the gates waiting to get in - but worth it! While I was waiting near the press entry the ...

Catch-up
Aug 12, 2007 (11 photos)

... of the fantastic scout hospitality we have found. Next stop Reading.  The AA advised 2 hours travel, our friend in Reading (Jane) suggested 3 hours,  it took ...... 6 HOURS!!!  All the jokes about the M25 being the largest car-park ...

F.A.Q
Nov 21, 2007

... All in all I managed to keep to this. To put this in perspective, it equates to only renting a room in a shared house in Reading and doesn't include things like transport or food or entertainment or anything else at all in fact and so I felt I could fully ...

Itinerary
Jan 1, 2006

Welcome to my travel journal! I hope this will give me the opportunity to share with you the adventures and experiences Dan and I will be having over the next 7 months. Please feel free to read our stories whenever you can and leave comments so that we ...

Leaving BBQ
Aug 27, 2005 (15 photos)

Thanks to all that came to my leaving BBQ! Sorry its taken so long to get these photos up..... Hannah

Trip Itinerary
Dec 21, 2005

I HAVEN'T GONE ANYWHERE YET YOU IMPATIENT SWINES! Still for those of you keen to salivate over a list of places that I will be visiting, then please find below a very basic itinerary (that I have copied off Lynne without her knowledge!):- America - ...

We are starting from here or nearby
Apr 23, 2008

Entry by Mike Cannon This is the initial entry showing our starting location of Reading, central to Thames Valley. Actually we are coming from Marlow, Ascot and Amersham.,

I'm finally going!!!!
Oct 31, 2005 (6 photos)

I never thought I'd actually see the day when I finally managed to see sense and do what I've been dithering about for the last three years. I needed an incentive to go but no matter how much I asked people to be nasty to me, they just wouldn't, ...

Enjoying being a kept woman in Reading
Aug 1, 2006 (52 photos)

After coming back from my travels, most of my last 2 months has been spent in Reading - lazing about, meeting Barika for lunch EVERYDAY, cooking, cleaning, swimming, volunteering at Oxfam and the local Fair Trade shop, intersperced with the odd trip into ...

Reading
Aug 29, 2008

... check and it was no longer there.  What can you do at that point?  except accept that it;s gone. We continued on to Reading, it was no surprise that Dad and Cass beat us to the hotel.  For dinner we were challenged by the fact that we could ...

Final Thoughts
May 11, 2006

... . And more, much more than this. I did it my way. (Final apology for the cheese overload) That's it! Hope you've enjoyed reading about my travels, and I'm sure there will be more in the not-so-distant future. THE END

Reading leaving party
Oct 23, 2006 (37 photos)

Reading leaving party, hope tap, Revolution and red cow. Thankyou everyone for coming had a fantastic weekend and it was good to catch up with those of you i haven't seen for a while. just got home from the Red cow and feeling the effects of a HEAVY ...